WIN XP Startup

criminal_smile

Toxteth_OGrady wrote:

@C_S

Those other tricks up this particular Google sleeve by any chance?

:cool:

TOG

Nope...fraid I didn't see that....probably near the top of the page too I'll bet

edit: Just had a look at the annoyances thread....but I see that nobody there has come up with a reasonable explanation for it either. Perhaps it's an easter egg to keep all the techies happy

Toxteth_OGrady

No fix - it's an XP bug but lot's of workarounds. Problem seems to stem from the explorer shell loading systray too quickly during boot before the apps that load the icons have started.

All the workarounds seem to just delay the loading of the systray somehow. These include:

Manual username/password logon.

Using bootvis optimization.

Using a 3rd start-up manager to ensure desktop.ini loads for current user only.

Disabling uPnP.

Several registry tweaks along the same lines.

Perhaps it's an easter egg to keep all the techies happy

Or a deliberate ploy by M$ to keep the techies fed on their self-licking lollipops

Anyway, main thing is you've made 2 more MSE'ers very happy. :beer:

:cool:

TOG

criminal_smile

hmmmm......until of course they have too many icons in systray and can't see all those IE windows on the taskbar

Wombat

No prob crim. The XP "hide it if you don't use it" function takes care of that!!


Thanks again.